The Problem of two truths in Buddhism and Vedānta.

✍ Scribed by Sprung, Mervyn

• Publisher: Reidel
• Year: 1973
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 135
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

It would be a bulky and intricate volume indeed that treated adequately of the problem of two truths in Buddhism and Vedanta: the present volume is slim and unpretentious. Not the less incisive, for that, it is hoped, but certainly neither systematic nor complete, and this in several senses. Not all schools of Buddhism are dealt with: Theravada, Indian Y ogacara, and the Logicians are missing among the Indian schools and there is no refer­ ence to Chinese and Japanese Buddhism. The Vedanta discussed is only Advaita (non-dualist), and that virtually limited to Sankara. Nor does the volume as a whole take up the problem of two truths thematically, though each paper raises the philosophical questions its author.thinks appropriate. The title 'The Problem of Two Truths in Buddhism and Vedanta' prom­ ises more than the book itself contains. The reason for this is given in the prefatory 'Note': each chapter is a paper read and discussed at a working conference. All the papers from the conference are here published, and no others. The book has thus the contours dictated by the availability of scholars at the time of the conference.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents

EDITORIAL NOTE

ABBREVIATIONS

MERVYN SPRUNG - Introduction

T.R.V. MURTI - Samvrti and Paramartha in Madhyamika and Advaita Vedanta

FREDERICK J. STRENG - The Significance of Pratityasamutpada for Understanding the Relationship between Samvrti and Paramarthasatya in Nagarjuna 27

MERVYN SPRUNG - The Madhyamika Doctrine of Two Realities as a Metaphysic

BIMAL KRISHNA MATILAL - A Critique of the Madhyamika Position

SHOTARO IIDA - The Nature of Samvrti and the Relationship of Paramartha to it in Svatantrika-Madhyamika

A.K. WARDER - Is Nagarjuna a Mahayanist?

HERBERT GUENTHER - Samvrti and Paramartha in Yogacara According to Tibetan Sources

RICHARD w. BROOKS - Some Uses and Implications of Advaita Vedanta's Doctrine of Maya
J.G. ARAPURA - Maya and the Discourse about Brahman

INDEX

✦ Subjects

Mādhyamika Buddhism Vedanta Dualism Bouddhisme Vedānta Dualisme Buddhismus Wahrheit